A review on mobility management and vertical handover solutions over heterogeneous wireless networks

M Zekri, B Jouaber, D Zeghlache - Computer Communications, 2012 - Elsevier
In the nowadays heterogeneous wireless environment, a plethora of access networks have
to be inter-connected in an optimal manner to meet the always best connected paradigm …

On the evolution of multi-cell scheduling in 3GPP LTE/LTE-A

E Pateromichelakis, M Shariat… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a holistic overview of multi-cell scheduling strategies in emerging
wireless systems. Towards this objective, the evolution of interference management …

New privacy issues in mobile telephony: fix and verification

M Arapinis, L Mancini, E Ritter, M Ryan… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Mobile telephony equipment is daily carried by billions of subscribers everywhere they go.
Avoiding linkability of subscribers by third parties, and protecting the privacy of those …

Resource allocation with interference avoidance in OFDMA femtocell networks

YS Liang, WH Chung, GK Ni, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interference control and quality-of-service (QoS) awareness are the major challenges for
resource management in orthogonal frequency-division multiple access femtocell networks …

Interference alignment for cooperative femtocell networks: A game-theoretic approach

F Pantisano, M Bennis, W Saad… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of small cells serviced by low-power base stations such as femtocells is envisioned
to improve the spectrum efficiency and the coverage of next-generation mobile wireless …

Spectrum leasing as an incentive towards uplink macrocell and femtocell cooperation

F Pantisano, M Bennis, W Saad… - IEEE Journal on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of femtocell access points underlaying existing communication infrastructure
has recently emerged as a key technology that can significantly improve the coverage and …

[PDF][PDF] Weaponizing Femtocells: The Effect of Rogue Devices on Mobile Telecommunications.

N Golde, K Redon, R Borgaonkar - NDSS, 2012 - ndss-symposium.org
Mobile phones and carriers trust the traditional base stations which serve as the interface
between the mobile devices and the fixed-line communication network. Femtocells …

Autonomous component carrier selection for 4G femtocells—A fresh look at an old problem

LGU Garcia, IZ Kovács, KI Pedersen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the interference management problem in the context of LTE-
Advanced femtocells. Due to the expected large number of user-deployed cells, centralized …

An energy-centric handover decision algorithm for the integrated LTE macrocell–femtocell network

D Xenakis, N Passas, C Verikoukis - Computer Communications, 2012 - Elsevier
Femtocells are attracting a fast increasing interest nowadays, as a promising solution to
improve indoor coverage and system capacity. Due to the short transmit-receive distance …

A novel handover decision policy for reducing power transmissions in the two-tier LTE network

D Xenakis, N Passas… - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Femtocells are attracting a fast increasing interest nowadays, as a promising solution to
improve indoor coverage, enhance system capacity, and lower transmit power. Technical …